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Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Sir Christopher Hampton to Lead PÖFF Official Competition Jury
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has announced the five-member jury for its 30th edition’s Official Competition. Led by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Sir Christopher Hampton, the jury brings together filmmakers and artists from the UK, Lebanon, the United States, France and Estonia.
Luxembourg at CinEast, Focus on Bulgaria & Ukrainian programme
● Luxembourg at CinEast – avant-premières of Luxembourg co-productions 3 Weeks After and Guria with guests, a Luxembourg–CEE Short Film Night, discussion with Jean Asselborn and three Luxembourgish members of juries ● Focus on Bulgaria – Bulgarian films, guests, concerts and a Bulgarian evening ● Special Ukrainian programme – films,…
The BIEFF.16 Winners: Films About Memory, Colonisation, and Apocalyptic Anxieties Win the Major Awards of the Festival
After five days filled with screenings, encounters with renowned filmmakers, and events dedicated to the industry and film lovers, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival announced last night, September 28, the winners of its 16th edition, “Vanishing Futures”, dedicated to the ways in which we can continue to imagine the future…
Black Nights Stars Announces Ten Acting Talents for Its 10th Edition
The 2026 selection brings together actors working across the Baltic Sea region and the Nordic countries. For the first time, the programme invited applications from Iceland and Norway.
FilmFestival Cottbus 2026: First Programme Highlights
Dear colleagues and partners,FilmFestival Cottbus is getting ready for its 36th edition: from 3–8 November 2026, Cottbus will once again become a meeting place for filmmakers, industry professionals and audiences passionate about cinema from Central and Eastern Europe.While the full programme will be revealed in mid-October, we are happy to…
What Remains of the Transformation: FilmFestival Cottbus Explores the 1990s and Their Lasting Impact
The upheavals of 1989/90 continue to resonate today. Biographical ruptures, new freedoms and social upheaval in the 1990s continue to shape political culture across Central and Eastern Europe. More than three decades later, a young generation of filmmakers is exploring a decade they themselves barely experienced first-hand. With Transformation without…
BIAFF 2023 Batumi Film Festival Awards
The 18th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival was held in Batumi during 17-24 September. Batumi International Film Festival was established in 2006. Organizer of the film festival - Batumi House of Artists "Argani". On 24 September, in Batumi Drama Theatre was held closing ceremony of BIAFF Film festival. At closing…
SATURDAY at the 51st Polish Film Festival | 26.09.26
Today, SATURDAY (26th September), the programme for the 51st FPFF includes: Awards Ceremony and Festival Closing Ceremony | by invitation only | broadcast on TVP Kultura and TVP 1 Red Carpet Ceremony | broadcast screenings of all films in the Main Competition screenings of films in the Perspectives Competition |…
YOUNG GALA | WINNERS OF THE 51ST PFF
The verdict of the Short Film Competition Jury at the 51st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia has now been announced. The winners of this year’s special awards were also announced during the Young Gala on Friday, 25th September 2026. The Short Film Competition Jury, comprising: Ewa Braun – ChairpersonJoanna SzymańskaBartosz…
The programme for the 19th edition of CinEast revealed & published!
The full programme for the 19th edition of CinEast (Central and Eastern European Film Festival, 9 to 25 October 2026) was announced on 24 September during the festival’s press conference, and is now available on the festival website www.cineast.lu. The programme brochure can be downloaded here.
FRIDAY at the 51st Polish Film Festival | 25.09.26
For today, Friday 25th September in the programme of the 51st PFF: ● Young Gala and Concert OMASTA & WFO - WHITE NOTE JAZZ PROJECT | Witold Gombrowicz City Theatre | by invitation only ● Screenings of all films from the Main Competition: The Time that Never Came dir. Julia…
THURSDAY at the 51st Polish Film Festival | 24.09.2026
Today on THURSDAY (24.09) at the 51st PFF: Screenings of all films from the Main Competition: The Time that Never Came dir. Julia Rogowska, written by: Małgorzata Piłacińska Good Boy dir. Jan Komasa, written by: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid | meeting on the Riviera Stage Wild, Wild East dir. Jan…
Up Close, the World Looks Different. 12 ways of looking at the present at Astra Film Festival 2026
A forest in Bucharest, a lover created by artificial intelligence, a shepherdess defending her mountain, and 80 journalists who refuse to remain silent: even though they may not seem to belong to the same story, they are all part of the Astra Film Festival 2026 story. The festival’s 12 thematic…
Astra Film Festival announces official selection. Four competition sections, 70 documentary films and more than 200 film events
Astra Film Festival, the international documentary film festival taking place in Sibiu from 17 to 25 October, offers more than 200 film-related events, making the Sibiu festival one of the most attractive cultural events of the autumn in Romania. Competing for the awards in the festival’s four competition sections (Romania,…
Romanian productions at Astra Film Festival 2026: personal stories that open up the major themes of the present
Organisers announce Early Bird passes and the Festival Passport A former political prisoner, a young woman adopted abroad who returns to Romania in search of her biological family, people brought together by faith and tradition, a community fighting to save a forest, and farmers who, ten years on, are still…
Astra Film Junior 2026. From stories on screen to debates on stage
Between 19 and 23 October, in Sibiu, pupils are discovering the world through documentary films, debating artificial intelligence and education, and learning to spot disinformation. Can artificial intelligence control our emotions? How do we recognise information that is trying to manipulate us? What does it mean to feel at home?…
WEDNESDAY at the 51st Polish Film Festival | 23.09.26
Today on WEDNESDAY (23.09) at the 51st Polish Film Festival: Screenings of all films from the Main CompetitionThe Time that Never Came dir. Julia Rogowska, written by: Małgorzata Piłacińska | special screening + meeting with the filmmakersGood Boy dir. Jan Komasa, written by: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid | special screening…
TUESDAY at the 51st Polish Film Festival | 22.09.26
Today, TUESDAY (22nd September), as part of the 51st FPFF: Screenings of all films from the Main Competition:The Time that Never Came dir. Julia Rogowska, written by: Małgorzata Piłacińska | press conference | meeting at the Riviera StageGood Boy dir. Jan Komasa, written by: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid | press…
Just Film International Youth Competition Features Only World and International Premieres
Just Film, the youth and children’s film festival of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), has unveiled its 2026 International Youth and Children’s Competition programmes.
CinEast 2026 – festival opening
Press conference reminder: the full programme of the 19th edition of CinEast – the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg – will be unveiled on Thursday 24 September 2026 at 11:00 at Cercle Cité (3 Rue Genistre, L-1623 Luxembourg).
